bobsled
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The dangers of sliding sports took center stage at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics when 11 crashes occurred in two days of bobsled training ahead of the Games.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2026
Last year, Flav was named the official hype man for the U.S. bobsled and skeleton teams.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2026
Lolo Jones won three world championships on the track and two in a bobsled.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2026
"I am aware of the diatribe the commentator directed towards the Israeli bobsled team on the Swiss Olympic broadcast today," he wrote.
From Barron's ● Feb. 17, 2026
He was picking up speed, skidding downhill like a bobsled.
From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan
Cold-weather sports require gloves and goggles and helmets, duffel bags bulging with hockey sticks, rifles for biathletes and four-man bobsleds the size of grand pianos.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2022
Bodine helped create the “Bo-Dyn” project, one where the same principles that went into auto racing were turned into ways to build faster bobsleds.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 9, 2020
Kinney will compete with Sam Michener, Nick Cunningham and Hakeem Abdul-Saboor, who played football at the University of Virginia at Wise, in one of Team USA’s three four-man bobsleds at the PyeongChang Games.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 28, 2018
Bobsleigh, luge and skeleton are among the fastest of Olympic sports, with bobsleds reaching speeds in excess of 150kph.
From Reuters ● Jan. 8, 2018
The snow was deep, and often I joined the village children on their bobsleds.
From A Splendid Hazard by Harold MacGrath
But it’s also realistic to believe that Trinidad, just by being in the competition, is furthering something of a revolution in the Winter Olympics in general, and in bobsledding in particular.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2026
While all share the commonality of being unconventional competitors in a space where they’re considered to be a rarity, bobsledding and ski jumping originated as European sports.
From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2024
Indeed, Herschel Walker’s athletic record made him a state icon—he’s not only a former college football and NFL star, but he once also competed on the Olympic bobsledding team.
From Slate ● Oct. 12, 2022
She also is the first woman to win three golds in bobsledding, with a chance for a fourth later this week in the two-person event.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 13, 2022
My nephew just telephoned to know if he could take Nelson and Ruth bobsledding on the hill before dinner.
From Sunny Boy and His Playmates by Howard L. (Howard Livingston) Hastings
